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Bugusa, Inc., Worksheet

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Am Haskell

University Of Phoenix

February 3, 2014

BUGusa, Inc., Worksheet

Neha Bhatia

Use the BUGusa, Inc., Scenarios and your research to support your answers to the questions.

Scenario: WIRETIME, Inc., Advertisement

Has WIRETIME, Inc., committed any torts? If so, explain.

Yes, they have committed a defamation tort. They are effecting BUGusa, Inc., reputation making statements that appear to be not true. And also, the defamation is called libel.

Scenario: IIRETIME, Inc. (Janet)

Has WIRETIME, Inc., committed any torts? If so, explain.

WIRETIME, Inc., has interfered with an existing contractual relationship that Janet has with their company. So, this means WIRETIME, Inc. can go after BUGusa, Inc. for any damages because of them losing their employee Janet had with the company. So as being said since BUGusa, Inc. has specific knowledge of the contract that had been broken, then WIRETIME, Inc. had actively interfered with the contract that had been broken, and so WIRETIME, Inc. caused losses to BUGusa, Inc. and so there was for sure a tort committed.

Scenario: WIRETIME, Inc. (Steve and Walter)

Discuss any liability BUGusa, Inc., may have for Walter actions.

The liabilities of BUGusa, Inc. may have with that Walter's actions are intentional tort of employee and negligence of employees. And so, Walter is going to be responsible for his actions. Keeping Steven for six hours can be considered false imprisonment and he was also threatened with bodily harm only made the case for Walter and WIRETIME, Inc. which only got worse. Walter could have received the same information by contracting a supervisor and letting them know about Steve's actions.

The first tort to discuss is intentional tort, because Walter is a security guard at WIRETIME, Inc., and so his actions, which were illegal has they are, were then within the scope of his employment. The three factors must be determined to classify Walter's actions as he is an employee at WIRETIME Inc., the second is the action had occurred within the reasonable time and space limits and the third was motivated by a purpose to serve WIRETIME, Inc. (Melvin, 2011)

It was very clear that Walter

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